Dumping vehicle



- '1619,628 March. 1 1927. v I A W. OSBORN DUMPING YEI'LI CLE Filed Aug.20. 1921 ZShuts-Sheet 1 LEnven 01% I 1 March 1927 A w. OSBORN DUMPINGVEHICLE Filed Aug. 20. 1921 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. 1, 1927.

UNITED STATES ARTHUR w. OSBORN, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB,'IO

COMPANY, or CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO 1,619,628PATENTOFFICE.

THE WHITE DUMPING VEHICLE. A

Application filed August 20, 1921. Serial No. 493,810.

This invention relates to dumping wagons, preferably motor driven, whichare especially contrived for use in collecting, transporting anddisposing of garbage, and the like. r A In order to appreciate theproblems involved in the production ofa satisfactory garbage wagon, it:should be remembered that the garbage tobe collected therein is foundin a large number of garbage cans into which the individualhouseholderputs his garbage. The garbage in these cam is frequently composed.largely of fluids. These cans are carried by the collectors from theplaces where they are found, usually near the kitchen doors, out to thewagon and are lifted by the collectors and dumped over the sidesthereof. To completely empty these garbage cans it is'generallynecessary to jounce the upturned cans on the upper edges of the sidesofthe body. 7

It is obviously desirable to reduce to a minimum the necessary effortinvolved in emptying the garbage cans into the wagon body; topreventas-completely as possible the spilling of fluid contents of thetruck along the streets; to minimize the noise iiicident to the progressof the wagon over the pavement, and incident to emptying the cans intothe wagon body; and also to prevent the injury of the garbage cans orthe wagon body, as the former is bumped against the sides of the latterto cause them to discharge their contents into the truck. The presentinvention aims to secure the above mentioned objects in a high degree.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of partsshown in the drawings and hereinafter described and pointed outdefinitely in the appended claims.

In the drawing, Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of a garbage truckwhich involves this invention;,Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view inthe plane indicated by line 22 on Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is alongitudinalsectional view of the body, and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional viewthrough one side of the body when the upper part of said side is foldeddown as shown.

The truck shown is motor driven and includes a chassis of suitableconstruction, of which 10 represents the side frame members. The body,indicated generally by 20 is pivoted near its rear end on the horizontaltransverse axis 16 to the side frame members of the chassis. Anysuitable mechanism 17 is provided for tilting the body to such an anglethat its'contents will-run out of its then depressed rear end under arear end gate 18 which is normally closed but may happened or allowed toopen to permit the contents of the body to be dumped out. In respect tothe features re ferred to the truck shown is conventional and may bevaried as desired. The body is made in box form of properly bent andsuitably braced sheet metal. The front end 21 of the body is.permanently secured in place as shown. The body is stiffened andstrengthened by two longitudinally extended channel bars 22, 22, securedto the bottom of the sump 23 which will be hereinafter referred to. Whenthe wagon body is in operative position as shownthese angle bars restupon wood bars which are secured to the top side of the side beams 10 ofthe chassis frame. lVood is used for this purpose in order to minimizethe noisecaused by running the trucks over rough pavement.

The sides of the body are composed of two sections, to wit, a lowersection 24 which is a bent up integral part of the bottom,

and a top section 25 which is hinged to the body section and may occupythe upright position shown at the right side of Fig. 2, or the pendantposition shown at the left side of said figure. The bottom of the-bodyhasa depressed sump 23 which extends from thefrontto the rear end saidsump lying about midway between the side; the bottom having two wideplatforms 27 between the sump and the two sides, respectively, whichplat-forms are very slightly inclined downward towardthe sump. The

rear end 26 of the sump bottom is inclined upward so that the rearendthereof is in substantially the same of the platform.

The hinges through which the upper and lower side sections are connectedtogether are parts of brackets which are utilized as braces andstrengthening members. There are several cast metal brackets 28 on eachside of the body which fit beneath the platform 27 against the side ofthe sump 23 and are riveted to these parts,said brackets being alsoextended upward against the outer face of the lower side section 24 andriveted to it. The bracket has an outwardly extended rib 29, the upperpart of which plane as the rear ends is utilized as part of the hingefor connecting the two side sections. The upper side section has abracket plate 80 fixed to it and it is formed with two paralleloutwardly extended ribs 31 which extend below the lower edge of the topsection and overlap the upper end of the rib which passes between them,the overlapping ends of said ribs being pivoted together. When the upperside section is swung to its upstanding position it will be held in thatposition by means of levers 32 pivoted to the inner face thereof, andnear the ends, which levers may be swung to engage behind fixed parts ofthe permanent frame work of the body.

. Fixed to the outer face of each lower side section near its upper edgeis an angle bar 33 which forms a seat for the longitudinally extendedbar 34: of wood which extends practically from one end of the side tothe other, being interrupted of course by the brackets. The purpose ofthis wood bar is to furnish asurface against which, when the top sidesection is hanging down, the upturned edges of the garbage cans may bebumped in order to jar their contents out into. the body. This wood baris advantageous because the garbage cans are not bent or dented as theyare bumped against it, and because also rela tively little noise isproduced by this bump- 1112.

Corresponding angle iron brackets 33 are liked to the outer faces of thetop side section 25, and these brackets support similar wood bars 34which are provided for the purposes above described.

hen the filling of the body with garbage is begun, of course the topsections will hang down, as shown at the left side in Fig. 2. Obviously,this enables the collectors to dump the garbage cans without liftingthem as high as they would have to be lifted if it were not for the factthat the upper side sections can be permitted to hang down as stated.The garbage dumped from the cans falls upon the flat platforms, 27. Thefluid contents of the garbage drains therefrom onto these platforms andthen runs down into the sump. This is an advantageous constructionbecause it is obviously impossible to make a fluid-tight joint between.the top and bottom sections of the sides, when the top section issecured in its upstanding position; and it is equally undesirable thatthese fluid contents of the garbage should be allowed to leak out on thestreets along which the truck travels. With the construction shown thereis very little danger; of leakage of fluid contents through the jointsbetween the two side sections because of the fact that said fluidcontents will drain into the sump. The construction is also advantageousbecause it is no infrequently desirable that the fiuidandsolid contentsof the garbage be segregated to as great an extent as possible at thedelivery station. This can be effected with the described constructionby first tilting the wagon body alittle,- enough to let the fluidcontents run out of the sump, but not enough to cause the solid contentsto slide down onto the rear end of the body. WVhen the fluid contentshave been so discharged into the sump thebodymay be still further tiltedand the solid contents will run out. a 7

Attention is also called to the fact that the body is so wide that itoverhangs the wheels 40. When therefore the wheels are close to thecurb, the garbage collectors are able to.

stand on the sidewalk as they dump the cans into the wagon body,-andthey can dump into the body at any point from end to end without beingimpeded by the wheels.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. A dumping vehicle body havingsides each of which is composed of a fixed lower section and an uppersection having ahinged connection ,to the lower section to swingdownwardly, means to hold the upper sec 7 tions in their upstandingpositions, the lower side sections having along their upper edges on theouter sides thereof wood bumper bars, and the upper sections havingalong their upper edges wood bumper hinged connections permitting theupper sections to swing clear of the first mentioned bumper bars.

2. A sheet metal dumping vehicle body bars, said whose bottom is made ofa single piece of sheet metal having its middle portion bent down toform a depressed longitudinal sump and having its sides bent up to formlower sections of the body sides, brackets secured to the depressedsides of the sump and to the bottom between the sump and sides of thebody and against the outer faces of the sides of the body, each of'said.brackets having an outstanding rib, combined with upper side sectionseach having secured to it a pluralit-y of bracket plates each formedwith an outstanding rib which extends below the loweredge of the topside section and is pivoted to a rib on one of the. first namedbrackets.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature. I

ARTHUR \V. OSBORN.

